STARTUP NEWS ASIA

Boosting the signal on Asia's tech news

Asia tech snapshots for April
Asia's Tech Newsletter, Weekly
Indo-Pacific Insight, Daily and Weekly

Singapore: March 2025

Singapore’s technology news headlines
from March 2025

Also available:

Asia’s Tech News, Weekly Newsletters
&
Indo-Pacific 5×5: Daily geopolitics updates

KPMG Venture Pulse Q1 2025 - Asia findings

KPMG Venture Pulse Q1 2025 – Asia findings

• A brief overview of the recent Singapore Int’l Foundation Climate Hack 2024 Pitch Day, and the 3 teams that won on the day / full item

• Singapore has charged 3 with fraud, believed to be concerning movement of advanced NVIDIA chips from Singapore to China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence firm / full item

• Singapore’s DBS bank expects to cut circa 4000 roles over 3 years as artificial intelligence takes work currently done by humans / full item

Cyber attacks APAC in Q1 2025

StormWall: The State of DDoS attacks in APAC in Q1 2025

• Monetary Authority of Singapore and State Bank of Vietnam expand MoU to boost cooperation on digital innovation projects and payment connectivity, and to support fintech operations / full item

• Singapore: Agros lands $4.25M Series A with solar-powered irrigation solutions, particularly focusing on smallhold farmers / full item

• Singapore: Circulate Capital environmental impact investor closes Circulate Capital Ocean Fund I-B, bringing the fund’s assets under management to $73M, and firm’s total AUM to $255M / full item

• Video: ‘Singapore’s billion-dollar IPs are ready to be commercialized. What now?’ From Tech in Asia / full item

• Singapore-Australian PHNXX raised $1.13M seed funding with containerised energy solutions providing modular, scalable energy systems for remote and rural industrial communities / full item

• Singapore: Kyberlife B2B platform secures $3M with online marketplace for sourcing critical healthcare equipment, streamlining procurement processes / full item

• Singapore: Circulate Capital environmental impact investor closes Circulate Capital Ocean Fund I-B, bringing the fund’s assets under management to $73M, and firm’s total AUM to $255M / full item

China's carmakers in Russia

Collision Course: The future of China’s carmarkers in Russia

• Video: ‘Singapore’s billion-dollar IPs are ready to be commercialized. What now?’ From Tech in Asia / full item

• Japan: Marubeni conglomerate and Singapore’s Hexa Renewables ink strategic partnership to co-develop up to 100 MW of solar energy projects for deployment across Japan / full item

• Singapore and Vietnam to boost cooperation on subsea cables, finance, and energy as part of upgraded relations to a comprehensive strategic relationship / full item

• Thailand: Singapore’s DayOne data centre company is investing $1 billion into Thailand over 3 years for data centre development, with government looking to cap electricity costs / full item

• Singapore and Vietnam to boost cooperation on subsea cables, finance, and energy as part of upgraded relations to a comprehensive strategic relationship / full item

Indo-Pacific 5x5 geopolitics newsletter

Indo-Pacific 5×5: Daily geopolitics newsletters & downloads

Asia Tech Newsletters, Weekly: March 2025

Critical technologies - March 2025

Critical technologies in the news, globally, in March 2025

Indo-Pacific Insight newsletter

© 2025 STARTUP NEWS ASIA by Wade K Wright / Asia's tech news weekly

Theme by Anders Norén